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Sphere Packing

 Published on Friday, 19th December 2008, 01:00 pm; Solved by 2386;
Difficulty: Level 24 [64%]

Problem 222

What is the length of the shortest pipe, of internal radius $\pu{50 mm}$, that can fully contain $21$ balls of radii $\pu{30 mm}, \pu{31 mm}, \dots, \pu{50 mm}$?

Give your answer in micrometres ($\pu{10^{-6} m}$) rounded to the nearest integer.



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